Ecosystem
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- community
- all the populations of organisms living together in an environment
- decomposer
- comsumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms (fungi, bacteria, insects)
- ecologist
- someone who studies the ecosystem
- abiotic factors
- non living parts of the ecosystem
- producers
- produce food and oxygen, plants, algae
- ecology
- the study of how living things and their environment interact
- niche
- the role an organism has in its ecosystem (what it eats, activity level, etc)
- ecosystem
- all the living and non-living things in an area interacting with each other
- population
- all the organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time
- energy pyramid
- shows the amount of energy that can pass from one level of a food chain to the next
- biotic factors
- a living part of the ecosystem
- consumer
- an organism that eats other organisms
- habitat
- the part of the ecosystem that an organism lives in (homes)